CESAR5.3: ISOTOPIC DEPLETION FOR RESEARCH AND TESTING REACTOR DECOMMISSIONING
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1 CESAR5.3: ISOTOPIC DEPLETION FOR RESEARCH AND TESTING REACTOR DECOMMISSIONING G. RITTER *, R. ESCHBACH, R. GIRIEUD, M. SOULARD CEA, DEN, SPRC, St Paul-lez-Durance, France * Tel: +33 (0) , Guillaume.Ritter@CEA.Fr ABSTRACT CESAR stands in French for "simplified depletion applied to reprocessing". The current version is now number 5.3 as it started 30 years ago from a long lasting cooperation with New AREVA Holding, co-owner of the code with CEA. This computer code can characterize several types of nuclear fuel assemblies, from the most regular PWR power plants to the most unexpected gas cooled and graphite moderated old timer research facility. Each type of fuel can also include numerous ranges of compositions like UOX, MOX, LEU or HEU. Such versatility comes from a broad catalog of cross section libraries, each corresponding to a specific reactor and fuel matrix design. CESAR goes beyond fuel characterization and can also provide an evaluation of structural materials activation. The cross-sections libraries are generated using the most refined assembly or core level transport code calculation schemes (CEA APOLLO2 or ERANOS), based on the European JEFF3.1.1 nuclear data base. Each new CESAR self shielded cross section library benefits all most recent CEA recommendations as for deterministic physics options. Resulting cross sections are organized as a function of burn up and initial fuel enrichment which allows to condensate this costly process into a series of Legendre polynomials. The final outcome is a fast, accurate and compact CESAR cross section library. Each library is fully validated, against a stochastic transport code (CEA TRIPOLI 4) if needed and against a reference depletion code (CEA DARWIN). Using CESAR does not require any of the neutron physics expertise implemented into cross section libraries generation. It is based on top quality nuclear data (JEFF3.1.1 for ~400 isotopes) and includes up to date Bateman equation solving algorithms. However, defining a CESAR computation case can be very straightforward. Most results are only 3 steps away from any beginner s ambition: Initial composition, in core depletion and pool decay scenario. On top of a simple utilization architecture, CESAR includes a portable Graphical User Interface which can be broadly deployed in R&D or industrial facilities. Aging facilities currently face decommissioning and dismantling issues. This way to the end of the nuclear fuel cycle requires a careful assessment of source terms in the fuel, core structures and all parts of a facility that must be disposed of with "industrial nuclear" constraints. In that perspective, several CESAR cross section libraries were constructed for early CEA Research and Testing Reactors (RTR s). The aim of this paper is to describe how CESAR operates and how it can be used to help these facilities care for waste disposal, nuclear materials transport or basic safety cases. The test case will be based on the PHEBUS Facility located at CEA - Cadarache. RRFM CESAR P 1 / 13
2 1 Introduction The CESAR project was initiated about 30 years ago as a cooperative action conducted both by French CEA (Atomic Energy Commission) and New AREVA Holding. It was dedicated to characterize the flow of isotopes coming through the La Hague Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant in France / region of Normandy. Basically from a used fuel subassembly to the associated recycled MOX and the different cans of waste. At the beginning, only a few heavy nuclides were treated. Then, step by step, Fission Products and other Structural Materials or Impurities were added to the list, so that, as of today, the fate of 486 isotopes can be computed fast and accurately. CESAR provides isotopic concentrations and all physics parameters that can be drawn like IAEA Safety transportation class, decay heat or gamma emissions. Such results then proved to be useful not only for the fuel cycle industry but also in much smaller facilities like CEA fuel engineering hot cells, severe accident experiments or RTR s (Research and Testing Reactor). The goal of this paper is to show how CESAR works, what it produces and how helpful it can be for unusual uses in operation and dismantling of RTR s. Evaluation of mass inventory, activity, decay heat, radiation sources are necessary to operate a facility on a day-to-day basis. But dismantling also requires evaluations of biological shielding, decay heat removal, reprocessing, transport, safety classification, waste interim storage or disposal. The last main version of CESAR was released in 2012 Ref.[1]. 2 Depletion and decay made easy The goal of this chapter is to address the means by which CESAR characterizes isotopic inventories. This process takes place either during in-core fuel burn up or outside of the neutron flux, where natural radioactive decay happens. 2.1 Isotopic Evolution CESAR solves the standard Bateman depletion equation Ref.[2], as in the following form (applicable to e.g. actinides) : Where: N( = concentration of an isotope dn( dt Z A ( = neutrons flux at time t ( = cross section at time t = half life decay constant (. N( 1 (. (. N(. N(. N(. N( 4 TI. N( (. (. Z A 1 Z A Z A 1 ( ( (. N(. c c f n,2 n Equation 1 Bateman formalism A at time t Z Z A n,2n Z A 2 half life Z A 1 N( Z A Z A m RRFM CESAR P 2 / 13
3 For fission products and for some activation products, this system includes a global fission yield (see Equation 2), operating as a sum of the fission rate of a fissionable actinide multiplied by the fission yields of the fission product for this fissionable actinide. Y G A Z Equation 2 Application of fission yields to actinides Where: j = fission rate of the fissile nucleus j j = Production yield of isotope A from fissile nucleus j Z For activation products, other reaction types [(n, ), (n, p), ] are taken into account. actinides fissionable Solving Equation 1 provides isotopic concentrations for heavy nuclides, fission products, impurities and activated structural materials. All basic nuclear data comes from Ref.[5]. 2/3 Fission yields are cumulated and 1/3 are independent. Two different types of solvers have been developed to care for either in-core depletion or off-core decay (cf. 2.2). j j A Z j 2.2 Computation In-core depletion is solved using the Runge Kutta 4 th order method and off core decay is solved using a matrix exponential method. In both cases, the overall isotopic matrix is split in several smaller easier to solve systems which makes computations faster. As an example, characterizing the behaviour for a typical PWR sub-assembly takes less than 20 s on an average 2017 desktop computer. The other complementary reason for fast computations is all decay chains are included in the executable software, forgetting about numerous disk access losses to an external file during a run. Moreover, chains are cut to an optimum to save on computation time whilst preserving predictivity. And as computations do not all require the comprehensive list of CESAR isotopes to go even faster, it is possible to skip (or add) a hundred more actinides (from 206 Pb to 257 Fm) and their spontaneous fission for long cooling times. Last to be mentioned, but not the least, the trickiest parameter as for core physics i.e. microscopic cross sections, are (almos not computed during this Bateman step, as will be described in 3. This saves at least 99 % computer time. After solving the Bateman equation users seldom simply need isotopic concentrations. This is why computations can continue to produce all complementary parameters, as described hereafter. RRFM CESAR P 3 / 13
4 2.3 What results beyond isotopic concentrations Users can draw from concentrations all the following parameters : mass inventory, activity (,, Isomeric Transitions), decay heat (,, ), neutron, and source and spectrum, including ray spectrum (spontaneous fission and (,n) reactions in oxide fuel), dose rate at 1 m in air for a point source radiotoxicity source coefficients used for the transport of nuclear material coefficients used for the classification of radioactive substances CESAR provides fast and abundant results 3 CESAR cross section libraries The goal of this chapter is to present how CESAR cross sections are elaborated, packed as dedicated libraries and eventually validated. 3.1 Generation Cross sections in Equation 1 correspond to all reactions caused by neutrons, i.e. occurring during in-core burnup. Therefore, it has to account for neutron physics phenomena due to the flux distribution. Assessment of the cross sections is performed by CEA scientific staff with dedicated reactor lattice physics computer codes like CEA APOLLO2 Ref.[3] or ERANOS Ref.[4]. Characterization of any original new core design can take months, from technological data collection to the end. Basic nuclear data come from Ref.[5], just as for depletion. Only reactor worth isotopes are characterized during this process. It concerns ~100 isotopes that have a significant influence on reactivity. Choosing the appropriate code depends on the expected core physics (fast or thermal spectrum). Determination of cross sections requires an accurate modelling of the fuel geometry (in most cases 2D), with adapted space mesh, boundary conditions and energy binning as well as appropriate isotope-wise self-shielding options. In the case of e.g. BWR concepts, it is also necessary to define a 3D model in order to include modelling of axial void effects. Cross sections are computed at each step of burn up so that any light change in the flux distribution due to fission products build up, heavy nuclides depletion or e.g. boron concentration evolution can be safely accounted for. It is also computed for several initial enrichments or isotopic vectors, each causing a different shape of neutron spectrum at the beginning of life and during depletion. This energy wise spectrum is recorded as a representative signature of core physics conditions. RRFM CESAR P 4 / 13
5 At the end of this part, cross sections (burn up, initial enrichment, initial isotopic vector) are processed through the following steps with a tool called APOGENE : Collapsing in one energy group using the computed neutron energy spectrum. This operation concerns both ~100 reactor worth isotopes and all other ~400 isotopes among CESAR s for which an infinite dilution "general purpose" exists Ref.[5]. Fitting one group cross sections (burn up, initial enrichment, initial isotopic vector) to Legendre polynomials and extracting the corresponding coefficients. More precisely, it determines a set of coefficient degrees providing results closest to the original figure. Ciphering the coefficients Packing the whole into a dedicated CESAR cross section library, called a BBL. This process is summed up into the following figure. Figure 1Cross section generation process Figure 1 above shows how CESAR cross section libraries are generated. After this process, it can be used with CESAR to determine the isotopic inventory. On top of this process, another step is added to make sure predictions are valid, as described in the following chapter. 3.2 Validation process CESAR uses generic radioactive decay data from Ref.[5] and specific cross sections estimated thanks to Legendre polynomials as described in the previous chapter. However, it must be checked whether a short list of 500 isotopes, only accounting for independent fission yields, cumulated with polynomials estimated cross sections succeeds in providing technically affordable results. This is why CESAR is validated against DARWIN Ref.[6], CEA reference computer package for isotopic inventory evolution. DARWIN computes all 3800 isotopes from JEFF It includes independent fission product yields with their comprehensive decay chain and its results are successfully RRFM CESAR P 5 / 13
6 compared to experimental data coming from several types of irradiated fuel section dissolution chemical analysis programs. After generating new CESAR libraries, results from both CESAR and DARWIN corresponding to the same test case are controlled in order to check consistency. Possible slight discrepancies only concern a handful of isotopes with significant concentrations and are then of the order of a few %. For other isotopes, concentrations or offsets are much lower and neglected. This procedure can be complemented with computer random testing of the new CESAR library. It will concern ~1000 cases checking whether the code actually operates within the assigned domain and fails outside. 4 The Graphical User Interface This chapter is dedicated to potential CESAR users and aims at showing how anyone in a decommissioning facility can set up a computation and get good results. 4.1 Main features This Graphical User Interface was updated in 2016 to include dose rate in air at 1 m for a point source. CESAR can be launched by experts in a computer batch process with a dedicated input deck. However, the interface makes it easier to use on about any common platform (Linux, Windows, Apple). It was developed in C++ with Open source QT5 technology Ref.[7], which makes it compatible with numerous other applications like CEA platform SALOME Ref.[9]. It is touch screen compatible. Exchange file format is xml thus providing a large flexibility. Drag and drop can be used between most parameters and users will have instant online help with generalized tooltips. 4.2 Using it A typical computation is based on 2 steps : 1 st generating a set of isotopic concentrations as a function of compound history. 2 nd extracting any desired data from concentrations. Isotopic initial compositions can be entered in several units (Absolute mass, Atoms/cc, Mass %, Atom %, TBq), all dynamically proportional. It can be located off exposure to any neutron flux or within a reactor core. In that later case, users have to select a cross sections set matching their hypotheses in the available catalog of core designs. At CEA, about 100 such libraries (BBL) have already been generated (see Table 1 hereafter). Such developments were led in collaboration with AREVA NC, or for AREVA NC, or for CEA. RRFM CESAR P 6 / 13
7 Fuel / Reactor PWR UOX (fuel) Subassembly structures Initial U-235 or Pu enrichment Maximum burnup Up to 5% Up to 100 GWd/t Up to 5% (UOX PWR) and 12% (MOX, FBR) Up to 100 GWd/t BWR UOX Up to 4.5 % Up to 72 GWd/t PWR MOX Up to 12% Up to 100 GWd/t BWR MOX Up to 6.1 % Up to 50 GWd/t Heavy Water Up to 94 % Up to 440 GWd/t Fast Reactor Up to 25 % Up to 200 GWd/t Gas Cooled Up to 1,7% Reactor Up to 11 GWd/t MTR Up to 94 % Up to 1000 GWd/t Note 17x17 but also 14x14, 15x15, 16x16, 18x18, and Reprocessing uranium based fuel, etc Libraries divided into different parts: Top nozzle, spring plug, plenum, clads and grids, bottom end plug, bottom nozzle 9x9, 8x8. Libraries divided into different parts to account for axial heterogeneity (void fraction or initial composition). Burnup also has an influence on axial power level. 17x17 but also 14x14, 15x15, 16x16 Effects of initial plutonium composition on cross section sets are taken into account. Libraries divided into different parts to account for axial heterogeneity (void fraction or initial composition). French and foreign experimental old reactors Phenix, RAPSODIE, European Fast Reactor Metallic fuel, Graphite moderator, Low enrichment uranium Rods, flat or cylindrical plates experimental facilities Table 1 Main core design libraries developed at CEA Elaborating the compound history consists in adding consecutive phases corresponding either to in-core burn up or decay anywhere : cooling or storage in a pool or e;g. in a repository. Users just have to enter duration and burn up or power rate of each phase. Any depletion computation set up can be saved under text or xml formats. The resulting computed concentrations are then processed to extract all needed data (cf. 2.3). In that perspective, such parameters can be selected from a complete table as shown in following Figure 2 hereafter. This selection window allows choosing which parameter in which unit will be useful. It provides results both in a text mode including as many tables as desired and in a csv or xml format which make it compatible with numerous other applications, including previous versions of the Graphical User Interface. A basic plot function can be activated for any of all desired isotopes and parameters. Results can be sorted either alphabetically (e.g. to find an isotope) or numerically (for example, to identify a main contributor to dose rate after 10 years decay). This post processing set up is also saved under text or xml format. It includes all hypotheses from initial composition and compound history to e.g. emission spectrum binning in energy or isotopic contribution to decay + heat. Isotopic evolution studies can be performed in a user s office as well as on the field with a portable computer or a touch screen tablet. RRFM CESAR P 7 / 13
8 Figure 2 Selection of desired parameters CESAR does not require any of core neutron physics or nuclear data knowledge and it actually proves to be user friendly on a day to day basis. RRFM CESAR P 8 / 13
9 5 Decommissioning Research and Testing Reactors at CEA 5.1 A description of those facilities concerned with dismantling At CEA, the RTR fleet was mostly designed and built in the 1960 s-1970 s and several facilities have now stopped operations. Some reactors are still operating like ORPHEE 1, a high flux beam core in Saclay or CABRI, a reactivity transient test reactor with a pressurized water loop in Cadarache, which is currently being renovated. For decommissioning facilities, it is essential to generate dedicated cross sections in order to be able to quantify fuel isotopic inventories stored in decay pools or in hot cells. Among the reactors for which decommissioning has started, those given in the following Table 2 already have a fuel characterization library available for CESAR although these were mostly developed for fuel recycling purposes. Type of reactor Name Fuel design main features MTR OSIRIS 1 Plates (High or Low enrichment fuel) MTR SILOE 1 Plates Severe accident testing SCARABEE 1 Plates Teaching ULYSSE 1 Plates Severe accident testing PHEBUS Rods + grids GCR Demonstrator EL3 Rods FBR Demonstrator RAPSODIE 1 Pins Table 2 CESAR libraries dedicated to CEA reactors 5.2 How does CESAR help In facilities presented in Table 2 here above, the core has already been unloaded. Fuel sub assemblies may be stored in a decay pool or in a dry storage facility. There may also be equipments contaminated from the same fuel located e.g. in an interim waste storage warehouse. And eventually, experiments may have been conducted within the flux range of that same fuel and will have to be disposed of. Here is a short list of other general situations where a depletion / decay computation can be useful : Evaluation of a neutron source ( 252 Cf or Am-Be) activity or neutron emissions either to update the nuclear materials inventory or to transfer it to another facility. Balance of nuclear materials entering or leaving the facility, as future or current owner. Assessment of Isotopic rejects to wastes (vents stack, liquid waste tank). Evaluation of decay heat Gas activity (tritium, fission products, Cl, C) Gamma spectrum emission prior to dose calculations Licensing of new experiments/tricky operations or transport casks. 1 These libraries have been developed specifically for AREVA NC, for reprocessing at La Hague plant purposes. RRFM CESAR P 9 / 13
10 Criticality, decay heat and radiation shielding parameters evaluation. Waste inventory. Ion exchange resins and filters activity. 5.3 The case of PHEBUS The PHEBUS reactor started operations in It was dedicated to the simulation of severe accidents, including Loss Of Coolant Accident, fuel bundle degradation and melting. It was a pool reactor with an annular core. Experiments were performed in a dedicated pressurized water loop located at the core centre. The core (cf. Figure 3 below) operated with 3 types of fuel sub-assemblies : Standard element (8x8), Triangular element and Control rods element. The fuel was UO 2 in zircaloy cladding. Figure 3 PHEBUS core lay out It produced experimental data from the mid 1960 s up to 2004 Ref.[8]. A last criticality campaign was performed in 2007 and the fuel sub-assemblies were eventually transferred from the core vessel to a nearby storage pool in late Sub assemblies must all and individually be characterized in terms of isotopic inventory in order to be evacuated from their current location to a facility dedicated to rods extraction. In that perspective, they have to be loaded in a transport cask, which will be carried on a truck and delivered to the extraction facility hot cell. Each sub-assembly has a specific peaking factor and burn up and must be dealt with according to a dedicated CESAR computation. This basic 3 step operation (transfer to the cask road transportation transfer to the hot cell of another facility) requires several CESAR computations to be inserted in separate and dedicated safety cases. Typically, each part of the safety case requires a specific CESAR computation: RRFM CESAR P 10 / 13
11 Nuclear materials inventory: Initial and current isotopic mass inventory for all isotopes. Basic radiation protection study to minimize risks to personnel: Evaluation of overall sources + dose from 154 Eu and from 137 Ba m in air at the decay date of transfer. Loading into the cask may require checking some criticality features: initial and current fissile content ( 235 U+Pu) Source term for potential gas releases at decay date of transfer: IAEA A2 value for gaseous or volatile fission products. Mass activity of 3 H and 85 Kr. Cask ability for transportation of such content: Decay heat, Activity and neutron emissions from Heavy Nuclides and Activation and Fission products. Each operator (sender carrier receiver) is clearly responsible for characterizing and checking these parameters. Using the same tool helps find occasional mistakes in evaluation. The PHEBUS facility operated during 4 short periods for the PHEBUS FP program, so that final fuel depletion is 2,5 GWj/T. It took about 4 years recommissioning the facility between each phase of the program and the cooling time since shutdown has also been accounted in CESAR computations (cf. following Figure 4). Programs anterior to PHEBUS FP have been integrated to the overall fuel burn up. Figure 4 PHEBUS FP program fuel burn up Figure 4 above shows the PHEBUS facility did not cumulate a very high burn up, as compared to industrial power reactors. On top of that, it operated with a very specific power history, including a long decay since shutdown, which makes a dedicated depletion computation mandatory. CESAR was used to provide Activity, Decay heat, neutron and emissions for each fuel sub-assembly. It also computed the activation of fuel skeletons. RRFM CESAR P 11 / 13
12 As a result, an ordinary PHEBUS sub-assembly will have, as of mid November 2017, an activity of 19,5 TBq (98% from Fission Products). The decay heat will be 1,51 W (94% from 90 Y, 137 Ba m, 137 Cs and 90 Sr) and total neutron emissions will be 3080 n/s. In the fuel the typical spectrum of emissions is given in Figure 5 hereafter. Figure 5 PHEBUS fuel typical emissions (Ray spectrum) Figure 5 above reminds 137 Ba m is by far responsible for most of gamma emissions from the fuel. In the skeleton of a fuel sub-assembly, the typical spectrum of emissions is given in Figure 6 hereafter. Figure 6 PHEBUS sub-assembly skeleton typical emissions (Ray spectrum) Figure 6 above reminds 60 Co is the main contributor to emissions due to structural materials activation. CESAR also provides a simplified evaluation of dose rate at 1 m, in RRFM CESAR P 12 / 13
13 air, with the point source approximation. The dose rate due to one bolt (30 g) under such conditions is 0.7 µgy/h. One single computation for fuel and skeleton is enough to get access to all features required for waste, storage, transportation, reprocessing, safety and criticality as the same irradiation history determines all consecutive radioactive properties. In the case of a study conducted without CESAR, it would be necessary to develop a lattice physics + depletion and decay calculation scheme and operate it for each sub assembly. It would also require knowing ahead of time when each operation will take place otherwise computations would have to be performed as many times as operations are delayed or advanced. This burden would cost more with such a computation scheme than with CESAR, all the more so as CESAR does not require a specific skill to update results. On top of being user friendly, CESAR uses cross section libraries that are validated against a DARWIN reference computation. This simple and short example is just one small illustration of the benefits that can be drawn from CESAR. There are obviously other applications in a nuclear facility. 6 Conclusion CESAR is a portable evolution tool developed by CEA and co-funded by New AREVA Holding. It is intensively used on an industrial scale at the New AREVA Holding La Hague reprocessing plant. It has a high level of validation and a user friendly Graphical User Interface. It is very fast thanks to pre computed cross section libraries and optimized numerical methods. CESAR can be used in lots of nuclear facilities and in particular in some of CEA RTR s being decommissioned. 7 References Ref.[1]CESAR5.3: An industrial tool for nuclear fuel and waste characterization with associated qualification Jean-Marc Vidal et al. WM2012 Conference, February 26-March 1, 2012, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Ref.[2]Harry Bateman. «Solution of a System of Differential Equations Occurring in the Theory of Radio-active Transformations», Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., vol. 16, 1910, p. 423 Ref.[3]A. Santamarina et al., APOLLO2.8: a validated code package for PWR neutronics calculations, ANFM 2009, Hilton, Head, Island, USA, (2009) Ref.[4]G. Rimpault, The ERANOS Code and Data System for Fast Reactor Neutronic Analyses, PHYSOR2002, Seoul, Korea, October 7-10 (2002) Ref.[5]A. Santamarina et al., The JEFF Nuclear Data Library: Validation Results form JEF2-2 to JEFF-3.1.1, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency n 6807, réf : JEFF Report22 (2009) Ref.[6]L. SAN-FELICE et al., Experimental validation of the DARWIN2.3 package for fuel cycle applications, PHYSOR 2012,Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, April (2012) Ref.[7] Ref.[8]Phebus FPT3: Overview of main results concerning the behaviour of fission products and structural materials in the containment. HASTE T et al. NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN vol. 261 p Ref.[9] RRFM CESAR P 13 / 13
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